If Ifs and Buts were candies and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas. — Author Unknown

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas? —Don Meredith

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it. — Demetri Martin

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. —Harlan Miller

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. —Charles Dickens

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance. — TobyMac

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. — Shirley Temple

I save every Christmas card. I keep them all. — Alison Sweeney

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up — they have no holidays. — Henny Youngman

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included. —Bernard Manning

I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark. —Dick Gregory

I love the excitement, the childlike spirit of innocence and just about everything that goes along with Christmas. — Hillary Scott

I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas — that's my favorite of all! — Joe Nichols

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. — Gina Gershon

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season. — Ashley Tisdale

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that — as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time. —Charles Dickens

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas. — Frank Butler

I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day! — Adriana Lima

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness. — Carrie Fisher

I do like Christmas on the whole…. In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year. —E.M. Forster

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. — Richard Brautigan

I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too. — Richard Dawkins

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become… but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress. —May Sarton

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah. — William Tecumseh Sherman

Heap on the wood! — the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still. — Sir Walter Scott

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. – Roy L. Smith

Have yourself a merry little Christmas, make the Yuletide gay. —Ralph Blane

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. —Peg Bracken

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. —Katharine Whitehorn

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. —Loring A. Schuler

For me, the spirit of Christmas means being happy and giving freely. It's a tradition for all the kids in the family to help mom decorate the tree. Christmas is all about family, eating, drinking and making merry. — Malaika Arora Khan

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. —W.J.Ronald Tucker

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise. — Karl Rahner

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. — Pindar

Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. — Richard Roeper

Even before Christmas has said Hello, it's saying 'Buy Buy'. — Robert Paul

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. —Terri Guillemets

Christmas… is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. — Freya Stark

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. — Dale Evans Rogers

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. — Mary Ellen Chase

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. —Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion. — Ralph W. Sockman

Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around. — Bryan White

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling. — Edna Ferber

Christmas is, of course, the time to be home — in heart as well as body. — Garry Moore

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money. —Author Unknown

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year — and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority. —W.J. Cameron

Christmas is the day that holds all time together. —Alexander Smith

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief. — Carol Ann

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts. — Janice Maeditere

Christmas is for children. But it is for grown—ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide—bound hearts. —Lenora Mattingly Weber

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home. —Carol Nelson

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it. —Richard Lamm

Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts. Just like the rest of the year. —Author Unknown

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic. — Katharine McPhee

Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness. — Mo Rocca

Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. — Washington Irving

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first — your money or your feet. — Author Unknown

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves. —Eric Sevareid

Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends. —Margaret Thatcher

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. — Lucinda Franks

Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us — a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead. — David Cameron

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart… filled it, too,with melody that would last forever. —Bess Streeter Aldrich

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. — Phillips Brooks

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own. — Ethel Merman

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year. —P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open—hearted. — Gisele Bundchen

Christmas … is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart. — Freya Stark

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! —Hamilton Wright Mabie

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. — Helen Steiner Rice

Beautiful, Magic, Waves Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. — Dale Evans

At Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' makes me cry in exactly the same places every time, even though I know it's coming. — Nicholas Lea

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child. — Queen Elizabeth II

At Christmas, all roads lead home. —Marjorie Holmes

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. — Thomas Tusser

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special. — Kevin Richardson

As we give presents at Christmas, we need to recognize that sharing our time and ourselves is such an important part of giving. — Gordon B. Hinckley

As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is. —Eric Sevareid

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house—top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too. — Clement Clarke Moore

A white Christmas fills the churchyard. — French Proverb

a melody that would last forever. — Bess Streeter Aldrich

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. – Garrison Keillor

A goose never voted for an early Christmas. — Irish Saying

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. — Benjamin Franklin

A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long—standing. — Author Unknown